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Political Parties: Funding

My Lords, political funding is needed because there are political costs. Would the noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor agree that these costs are often at ward level, constituency level, the level of groups of constituencies in a city, and at regional level? Will Sir Hayden Phillips’s review look—particularly in terms of what we call ““state funding””—not only at nationalised state funding, but really take account of costs at all levels of political activity?